Robert Smith Doesn't Sound Too Enthusiastic About the Cure's Next Album

Earlier this year, the Cure announced plans to release a new record this year, titled 4:14 Scream, which was recorded at the same time as 2008's 4:13 Dream. However, as CoS points out, frontman Robert Smith doesn't seem too excited about the prospect of releasing that album.

Following a performance at Royal Albert Hall, he did an interview with XFM (above). He called the upcoming album "a bit of a sore point", primarily because it was recorded by a different lineup. Smith said he wants to focus on recording another album with the band's current lineup.

"We're in a weird predicament in that I've finished singing and mixing an album that was made by a band that no longer exists. I'm not sure it happens that often. This band is trying to make an album with this lineup, and it's an album that I'm tempted to make, that's really different to anything else we've done. So trying to be convinced that I should release the second half of what is an effectively an album that came out in 2008, it's a bit of a sore point, really, to be honest, amongst this current lineup."

However, he does say that the album will likely be released this summer via the Cure's old label home Fiction. 4:13 was released by Suretone/Geffen, and Smith notes that it was originally supposed to be a double album with 4:14 as its second half. "So it's not really new," Smith said.

"I just never sang it because I couldn't be bothered," he said. "I just didn't think the words were good enough." He said over the past 18 months, he rewrote the lyrics and started singing on it.